News: Haro no Puyo Puyo

July 03, 2005, 06:00 PM

by chazumaru, via Bandai -
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The GameBoy Advance is far from dead in Japan; another example popped up last week when the GBA SP exceptionally outsold the PSP in Japan thanks to the release of a game based on Sega's popular MushiKing license. Bandai knows this and targeted the GBA as its platform for the next big license crossover after Namco X Capcom: Haro Ichiza: Haro no Puyo Puyo. As one can guess from the title, it mixes the universe of Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam with Compile's Puyo Puyo. More accurately, the game focuses on the very first Gundam series from 1979 (starring Amuro Ray, Bright Noah and Char Aznable). An understandable choice as Gundam's mascot Haro, popular enough to have a dedicated computer, makes a nice graphic alternative to puyos. Haro Ichiza: Haro no Puyo Puyo (which everyone is already shrinking to "Haropuyo") will come out on the 21st of july in Japan.